Hoi, Providing support for Silverlight means that it needs to be tested tp ensure that the support remains stable. Silverlight does not really add value as far as I understand it. It competes with more open standards so reasons can be easily found not to support it. We have to invest in supporting Silverlight, the question is, how does it help us, our readers.
We have a reputation that we support open standards ... so how open is Silverlight ? Thanks, GerardM
On 5 February 2010 22:53, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com Simetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:39 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
This is clever-ish:
http://www.atoker.com/blog/2010/02/04/html5-theora-video-codec-for-silverlig...
He says there that this will Just Work on ~40% of Windows boxes. Not
bad.
Cortado works wherever Java is installed, which is probably quite a lot more machines -- including Safari on Mac, for instance. If we used anything non-Java, it would surely be Flash, which has much greater penetration than Silverlight on all platforms.
Yes, Cortado works in more places but there is no reason that BOTH can't be used, extending support to places with silverlight but without Java.
Additionally, although cortado will work the Java ~1.1 VM that came with Navigator 4... it's rather slow except in the latest JVMs. I expect that a lot of systems with silverlight are not running an especially modern JVM.
Flash isn't something in the running because you still need to be using encumbered media formats to use it... unless you're only playing audio: There are several independent Vorbis implementations for the flash virtual machine, no video codecs yet, and sadly the flash architecture is no where near as nice as the silverlight one for remote-loaded codecs so you have to completely reinvent all the media infrastructure.
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